Stephen Fox recounts that Muir's father found the Church of Scotland insufficiently strict in faith and practice, leading to their emigration and joining a congregation of the Campbellite Restoration Movement, called the Disciples of Christ.

" As Tallmadge notes, Muir's belief in this " Book of Nature " compelled him to tell the story of " this creation in words any reader could understand.

Muir's partner was initially Isobel Barnett, but she was soon replaced with the film critic E. Arnot Robertson.

For years, he was resistant to producing an autobiography, claiming that much of his life and career had already been well covered by Frank Muir's A Kentish Lad and that a book called The Bits Frank Left Out would be too brief.

John Muir's birthplace was a three-story stone house in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland.

Carr, a fair assistant, was asked by fair officials to review Muir's exhibits to see if they had merit.

In one such article, his focus was Muir's debt to Carr, stating that she was his " guiding star " who " led him into the noble paths of life, and then kept him there :"

Muir biographer Steven Holmes notes that Muir used words like " glory " and " glorious " to suggest that light was taking on a religious dimension: " It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the notion of glory in Muir's published writings, where no other single image carries more emotional or religious weight ," adding that his words " exactly parallels its Hebraic origins ," in which biblical writings often indicate a divine presence with light, as in the burning bush or pillar of fire, and described as " the glory of God.

A 5-cent stamp issued on April 29, 1964, was designed by Rudolph Wendelin, and showed Muir's face superimposed on a grove of redwood trees, and the inscription, " John Muir Conservationist ".

Muir was delighted at the canyon's similarity to Yosemite Valley, as it reinforced his theory regarding the origin of both valleys, which, though competing with Josiah Whitney's then-accepted theory that the spectacular mountain valleys were formed by earthquake action, Muir's theory later proved correct: that both valleys were carved by massive glaciers during the last Ice Age.

As a television personality, Muir's unofficial trademark was a crisply knotted pink bow tie.

Muir's magnum opus, The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, which again uses a similar format with more scholarly aspirations, was published in 1990.

Muir's farm was located in the area that is now Jeffrey Street in Kirribilli.

Some accounts state that Muir's rescue or flight was not the first of such escapes may be judged from a remark of William Robert Broughton, Royal Navy, who sailed from Port Jackson in, Oct. 13, 1795, " We abstained from following the example of other ships that have touched at this colony, by not taking away any of the convicts, a practice very general in merchant ships ".

Muir's arrival in the capital was heralded by a great outburst of popular adulation.

Muir's chief confidant and informant during 1798 was Dr Robert Watson of Elgin, emissary to France on behalf of the United Englishmen.

William Muir the Campsie Poet was a relative of Thomas Muir's.

Though Muir's sense of humor was often obvious with Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves often brought out a goofier type of humor: their albums contain comedy skits by a reptilian lover named Aladdin Sarsippius Sulemenagic Jackson the third.

" In spite of Muir's objections, Lane was successful: Congress authorized the project after a long and bitter battle.

Muir's contemporary reviewers of Life uniformly praised him for his knowledge of Arabic ; the only competing work in Britain at the time was a book by Harrow schoolmaster Reginald Bosworth Smith, who had no Arabic language skills.

Historian Avril Powell notes that none of the contemporary reviews commented on Muir's view that the Muslim society was stationary and incapable of reforms, perhaps because it was quietly assumed as indisputable by most of Muir's Victorian co-nationals.

He has written nine books: California !, Visions of Wilderness, What the Road Passes By, Robert Frost, A Tribute to the Source, Canyon Country, John Muir's High Sierra, and The Nature of Leadership which was created with Stephen R. Covey.

Muir's secondary band Infectious Grooves released their fourth and comeback album Mas Borracho in 2000, followed by Muir's second solo album as Cyco Miko, Schizophrenic Born Again Problem Child, in 2001.

As Muir's ideas spread, Whitney tried to discredit Muir by branding him as an amateur.

" She also tried to promote Muir's writings by submitting his letters to a monthly magazine for publication.

* Access Adventure Founded by Muir's grandson

* Edwin Muir's Journey by Robert Richman ( essay )

The CIA higher-ups are not aware that Muir has already been tipped off by fellow CIA veteran Harry Duncan ( David Hemmings ), for whom Bishop had been working an operation in Hong Kong before going rogue, about Bishop's capture prior to Muir's arrival at Langley.

Muir's later Annals was received with fewer reservations by the Times reviewer and other newspapers of the day.

* High Sierra: John Muir's Range of Light, by Phil Arnot, ISBN 1-884550-06-1, 1996.

* Words from an Old Friend by John Muir John Muir's tribute to Catharine Merrill

On June 24, 2006, the National Post featured a lengthy two-page story by John Lott in its sports section titled, Safe at Home, How Love and Medicine Rescued a Life from a Mysterious Illness, about Harry Muir's brush with death in 2005, on the front page of its sports section.

The mansion was built in 1883 by Dr. John Strentzel, Muir's father-in-law, with whom Muir went into partnership, managing his fruit ranch.

Since Fah-hien's Indians were people of Swat / Udyana, Hiuen Tsang's Indians were the people of Kapisa to Rajapura ( Rajauri ) and Arrian's Indians were the Assakenoi, Aspasio and Asteknoi localised in Kapisa / Swat / Kunar / Aornos regions of Paropamisadae in the west of Indus and north of Kabol as far as up to the Hindu Kush, hence, Johm Muir's Kambojas are exactly the same as the Aspasio, Guraeus, Assakenoi and Astekenoi of Arrian, or the people from Kapisa to Udyana / Swat territories, stated to be rude frontier Indians by Chinese pilgrims Hiuen Tsang and Fa-hien.

Muir's passion for nature made him the most influential American environmentalist.

It has been asserted that Muir's words, however, while certainly pro-British, were not anti-French, and he revised the lyrics of the first verse to " Here may it wave, our boast, our pride, and join in love together / The Lily, Thistle, Shamrock, Rose, the Maple Leaf forever "; adding " Lily ", a French symbol, to the list.

There were many rumors of the band members as well as their friends and followers being involved with gangs ( especially the Venice White Boyz ), with Muir's trademark blue bandanna and violence at the band's performances as evidence.

The band's 1991 tour with Queensrÿche, their first show in Los Angeles in years, and their appearance on the Clash of the Titans tour ( and, to a lesser extent, Mike Muir's brawl with Dave Mustaine on the aforementioned tour ) only helped expand their popularity.

Muir's strategy worked, however.

" Because of Mike Muir's back status, the band decided to release the compilation first.

* Frank Muir's autobiography.

Construction of the JMT began a year after Muir's death in 1915 with a $ 10, 000 grant from the California legislature.

Muir's biographer, Steven J. Holmes, states that Muir has become " one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity ," both political and recreational.

In 1849, Muir's family emigrated to the United States, starting a farm near Portage, Wisconsin, called Fountain Lake Farm.

Muir's biographer, Frederick Turner, notes Muir's journal entry upon first visiting the valley and writes that his description " blazes from the page with the authentic force of a conversion experience.

But Louis Agassiz, the premier geologist of the day, saw merit in Muir's ideas, and lauded him as " the first man I have ever found who has any adequate conception of glacial action.

Muir's former professor at the University of Wisconsin, Ezra Carr, and his wife Jeanne, encouraged Muir to put his ideas into print.

This event led more people to believe in Muir's ideas about the formation of the valley.

In 1876, the American Association for the Advancement of Science published Muir's paper on the subject.